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Given the history, I can appreciate their rage. The point stands that you don't get a state with long-term stability by just dropping a lid on a pressure-cooker
by shadowgovt 2y ago
Given the history, I can appreciate their rage. The point stands that you don't get a state with long-term stability by just dropping a lid on a pressure-cooker. Solutions that lean in that direction start to look disquietingly like final solutions.
- milesrout 2y ago[flagged]
- shadowgovt 2y agoTimeline-wise, the Palestinians were there long before the Israelis in modern Israel. I don't think forcing them out is a reasonable starting point. At best, that becomes a perpetual shame like the US treatment of native Americans. Personally, I look to Ireland and England as a potential model. People have been conflating Hamas and Gaza in this thread... At the height of the Troubles, more Irish supported the IRA than Palestinians support Hamas, and I don't think anyone ever suggested the solution was to relocate the Irish.
- milesrout 2y ago[flagged]
- defrost 2y agoThe non consentual sterilization of tens of thousands of Native American women by Americans was completely justified and justifiable? The destruction of language and culture via Indian schools was completely justified and justifiable? That's an opinion I and many others disagree with.
- za3faran 2y agoThe Palestinians in Gaza and the entirety of Palestine trace their roots to 3000+ years ago actually.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoArafat was Egyptian
- za3faran 2y agoWikipedia: Yasser Arafat[a] (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar,[b] was a Palestinian political leader
- inemesitaffia 2y agoYasser Arafat was Egyptian. He was born there and his tribe is there. He's as Palestinian as every Turk or Houthi. It's public knowledge. Also Wikipedia is known for it's progressive stance. Can't trust it for anything that intersects with culture war issues where everything is a conspiracy.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoYou can probably trust Wikipedia when it says that Yasser Arafat was born in Egypt to Palestinian parents.
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- inemesitaffia 2y agoArafat was born in Egypt to Egyptian parents. I knew where he was born since before Wales had the idea.
- za3faran 2y agoHe was Palestinian. It's public knowledge. Secondly, let's say he's from Mars, does that maean the rest of the millions of Palestinians are also all Martians? LOL
- shadowgovt 2y ago